拜占庭

Bàizhàntíng

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Meanings

1 Byzantium; the Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire, 395-1453 CE); the city of Byzantium (later Constantinople, modern Istanbul)

Characters

to worship; to bow (transliteration char)

to occupy (transliteration char)

courtyard; court

Examples

拜占庭帝国延续了一千多年。

Bàizhàntíng dìguó yánxù le yì qiān duō nián.

The Byzantine Empire endured for over a thousand years.

圣索菲亚大教堂是拜占庭建筑的杰作。

Shèng Suǒfēiyà dà jiàotáng shì Bàizhàntíng jiànzhú de jiézuò.

Hagia Sophia is a masterpiece of Byzantine architecture.

Tips

history

Phonetic transliteration of 'Byzantium': 拜 (bài) for 'By-', 占 (zhàn) for '-zan-', 庭 (tíng) for '-tium'. The empire fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 with the conquest of Constantinople. In Chinese-language tech writing, 拜占庭将军问题 (the Byzantine Generals Problem) is a foundational concept in distributed systems and blockchain.

culture

拜占庭式 ('Byzantine-style') is used metaphorically in Chinese — as in English — for things that are ornate, complex, or labyrinthine in their bureaucracy or design.

Stroke Order

拜 bài

占 zhàn

庭 tíng